Season 4, Episode 2: ARM & SoftBank

'Cause I mean what's cool is like it is literally the ARM six ten that was developed with Apple for the Apple Newton. Is the core of All the ARM processors. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts.

Today we are going to explore a topic that has flown relatively under the radar despite being the primary component of every single one of our phones. Softbank's thirty two billion dollar purchase of the British based Arm holdings. For folks that listened to uh the previous episode that we did on Softbank, uh, you know they were once a Japanese telecom and multinational conglomerate now that has a close to a hundred billion dollar uh fund that they they have it created massive disruption in the startup landscape and here we are diving into uh kind of the deal that that started it all and with just an essential piece of uh of technology that we all use every single day.

Listeners, you know that a few months ago we started our limited partner program for folks to go deeper on technology, startups, and VC topics with us. David, I wanted to say that I'm particularly pumped where we landed in our last episode on investment theses. on ambient computing and processing happening everywhere as sort of the next enormous technology wave. So I think it's super relevant to this episode and uh we will find out why as we dig in. So if you're interested or you just want to support the show and and like what we do, you should click the link in the show notes to consider becoming a prestigious acquired limited partner or go to Kimberlight.fm slash acquired. All right listeners. Now is a great time to talk about a new partner of ours here on Acquired, Lagora.

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